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University  ol  tie  State  ol  Hew  York  Bulletin 

Entered  as  second-class  matter  August  2,  1913,  at  the  Post  Office  at  Albany,  N.  Y., 
under  the  act  of  August  24,  1912 

Published  fortnightly 


No.  716  ALBANY,  N.  Y.  August  15,  1920 


School  Libraries  Division 

GRADE  ROOM  LIBRARIES 

A considerable  number  of  superintendents  and  principals  have 
asked  that  the  Department  prepare  a short  list  of  the  best  books 
for  each  grade,  books  that  should  be  purchased  first.  This  we  are 
very  glad  to  do  because  it  is  more  important  to  have  good  grade  room 
libraries  than  good  libraries  for  the  high  schools,  if  both  can  not 
be  had,  for  the  following  reasons: 

1 All  pupils  are  in  the  grades  at  some  time. 

2 Only  a small  portion  of  the  whole  ever  enter  the  high  school. 

3 The  pupils  have  more  time  for  reading  while  in  the  grades 
than  they  will  have  when  in  the  high  school. 

4 Reading  habits  like  other  habits  are  more  readily  acquired 
early  in  life. 

5 A child  who  does  not  form  the  reading  habit  while  in  the  grades 
is  not  likely  ever  to  do  so. 

It  should  be  borne  in  mind  that  books  can  not  wisely  be  assigned 
to  any  one  grade  absolutely.  Many  books  can  be  read  to  advantage 
in  any  one  of  several  grades,  and  any  book  mentioned  for  a given 
grade  may  well  be  in  a higher  or  lower  grade  in  some  schools  than 
in  others,  and  some  pupils  will  read  to  advantage  books  at  an  earlier 
age  than  will  others ; therefore,  a principal  will  be  justified  in  putting 
some  books  in  a higher  or  lower  grade  than  that  to  which  they  are 
assigned  in  this  list.  Because  of  the  difference  in  pupils  in  the 
same  grade,  some  books  are  listed  that  are  rather  difficult  for  the 
grade,  others  rather  easy  for  most  of  the  pupils.  Prices  are  not 
given,  because  they  are  changing  so  often.  Publishers  are  given 
in  all  cases.  Where  several  firms  publish  the  same  book  or  books, 
that  publisher  is  named  that  has  the  book  at  a lower  price,  or  better 
bound,  or  better  printed,  or  better  illustrated.  With  a few  excep- 
tions the  books  listed  may  be  had  at  a moderate  price.  It  will  be 
well  to  get  the  edition  named,  as  some  publishers  issue  several 
editions  of  the  same  book,  not  all  equally  desirable. 

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To  save  cost  no  annotations  are  given.  In  most  cases  these  may 
be  found  in  Bulletin  692,  a copy  of  which  has  been  sent  to  ever}7 
school  district  in  the  State.  Additional  copies  will  be  sent  on  request. 

An  effort  has  been  made  in  the  selection  of  books  to  grade  them 
so  as  to  tend  to  lead  to  a gradual  mental  growth,  and  to  cover  a 
fairly  wide  range  of  literature.  It  is  not  to  be  expected  that  each 
child  will  read  all  the  books  listed  for  his  grade. 

Grade  1 

As  only  a few  of  the  pupils  in  this  grade  will  do  much  reading,  the 
books  selected  are  mainly  for  the  teacher’s  use,  books  that  she  may 
read  to  the  children,  and  those  that  she  will  use  for  material  for 


story  telling. 

Adelborg 

Clean  Peter 

Longmans 

Bailey  & Lewis 

For  the  Children’s  Hour 

Bradley 

Bryant 

How  to  Tell  Stories  to  Chil- 

dren 

Houghton 

Craik 

Bow  Wow  and  Mew  Mew 

Merrill 

Mother  Goose  Reader 

Silver 

Perkins 

The  Dutch  Twins  Primer 

Houghton 

Perrault 

Tales  of  Mother  Goose, 

Welsh,  tr. 

Heath 

Potter 

Tale  of  Peter  Rabbit 

Wame 

Wiggin  & Smith 

Tales  of  Laughter 

Doubleday 

Several  primers  made  up  of  stories  rather  than  of  scrappy  sentences. 


Grade  2 


In  this  grade  children  should  become  familiar  with  such  “ chil- 
dren’s classics  ” as  Red  Riding  Hood,  Cinderella,  and  other  tales 
as  old  as  the  language,  stories  that  should  be  every  English-speaking 
child’s  birthright. 


Baldwin 


Howard,  comp. 


Lang 


Lucia 

O’Shea,  ed. 
Perkins 


Fairy  Reader 
Fairy  Stories  and  Fables 
Banbury  Cross  Stories 
Dick  Whittington  and  Other 
Stories 

Jack  the  Giant  Killer 
Red  Riding  Hood  and  Other 
Stories 

Peter  and  Polly  in  Spring 
Six  Nursery  Classics 
The  Eskimo  Twins 


Amer.  Book^Co. 
Amer.  BookJSo. 
Merrill 

Merrill 

Longmans 

Longmans 
Amer.  Book^Co. 
Heath 
Houghton 


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Fables  and  Folk  Stories  Houghton 

The  Children’s  Hour  Little 

Old  Fashioned  Fairy  Tales  Rand 
Pinafore  Palace  Grosset 

Grade  3 

In  the  preceding  grades  have  been  presented  such  “ children’s 
classics  ” as  Beauty  and  the  Beast,  Cinderella,  Jack  and  the  Bean- 
stalk, Mother  Goose,  Puss  in  Boots,  Red  Riding  Hood,  Dick  Whit- 
tington, Jack  the  Giant  Killer  and  some  fairy  tales.  In  this  grade 
will  be  given  more  fairy  stories,  and  a variety  of  reading  that  has 
long  been  recognized  as  being  the  best  for  children. 


Andersen 

Best  Fairy  Tales.  Henderson, 

ed. 

Rand 

Baldwin 

Fifty  Famous  Stories  Retold 

Amer.  Book  Co. 

Baldwin,  ed. 

Gulliver’s  Travels  Retold 

Amer.  Book  Co. 

Bannerman 

Story  of  Little  Black  Sambo 

Stokes 

Bass 

Nature  Stories  for  Young 

Readers 

Heath 

Chaplin 

A Treasury  of  Old  Fairy 

Tales 

Crowell 

Cox 

The  Brownie  Primer 

Century 

Eggleston 

Stories  of  Great  Americans 

for  Little  Americans 

Amer.  Book  Co. 

Fox 

Indian  Primer 

Amer.  Book  Co. 

Grimm  Brothers 

Household  Tales 

Houghton 

Grover 

Kittens  and  Cats 

Houghton 

Jones  & Weimer 

Chats  in  the  Zoo 

Rand 

Lansing 

Rhymes  and  Stories 

Ginn 

Mulock 

Adventures  of  a Brownie 

Rand 

O’Shea 

Old  World  Wonder  Stories 

Heath 

Seegmiller 

Little  Rhymes  for  Little 

Readers 

Rand 

Shaw 

Big  People  and  Little  People 

of  Other  Lands 

Amer.  Book  Co. 

Wiggin  & Smith 

The  Posy  Ring 

Grosset 

Wiltse 

Hero  Folks  of  Ancient 

Britain 

Ginn 

Scudder 
Tileston 
Washbume 
Wiggin  & Smith 


Grade  4 

All  children  in  the  grades  should  become  well  acquainted  with 
such  fairy  stories,  folk  tales,  allegories,  legends,  myths  and  epic 
poems  as  are  necessary  to  the  understanding  of  general  literature 


on  account  of  references  to  the  characters  and  ideas  represented 
in  these  writings  that  have  become  a part  of  the  world  literature. 
These  should  include  among  others,  Pilgrim’s  Progress,  Robin  Hood, 
King  Arthur  and  the  Knights  of  the  Round  Table,  the  stories  of 
the  Iliad  and  the  Odyssey,  and  Greek,  Roman  and  Norse  myths. 


Baldwin 


Browne 

Browning 

Carroll 

Clement 

DeFoe 

Hale 

Hawthorne 

Jackson 

Judd 

Kingsley 

Kipling 

Lansing 

Lucia 


Mabie,  ed. 

Richards 

Ruskin 

Skinner 


Old  Greek  Stories 
Thirty  More  Famous  Stories 
Retold 

Granny’s  Wonderful  Chair 
The  Pied  Piper 
Alice’s  Adventures  in  Won- 
derland 

The  Night  before  Christmas 
Robinson  Crusoe 
Arabian  Nights 
Wonder  Book  (Riverside 
Literature  series) 

Letters  from  a Cat 
Classic  Myths 
Greek  Heroes 
The  Jungle  Book 
Tales  of  Old  England 
Stories  of  American  Dis- 
coverers for  Little  Amer- 
icans 

Fairy  Tales  that  Every 
Child  Should  Know 
The  Pig  Brother 
King  of  the  Golden  River 
Tales  and  plays  of  Robin 
Hood 


Amer.  Book  Co. 

Amer.  Book  Co. 

Heath 

Rand 

Ginn 

Dutton 

Grosset 

Ginn 

Houghton 

Little 

Rand 

Ginn 

Century 

Ginn 


Amer.  Book  Co. 

Grosset 

Little 

Heath 

Amer.  Book  Co. 


Instead  of  adding  to  the  number  of  different  books  for  this  grade 
it  will  probably  be  better  for  a time  to  get  duplicate  copies  of  those 
that  are  most  popular,  as  when  a child  has  read  a book  that  he  likes 
he  talks  to  his  mates  about  it  and  they  want  it,  and  want  it  at  once. 


Grade  5 

Allen  Joe  the  Circus  Boy  Page 

Baldwin  Abraham  Lincoln  Amer.  Book  Co. 

American  Book  of  Golden 

Deeds 


Amer.  Book  Co. 


5 


Baldwin 

John  Bunyan’s  Dream 

Story 

Amer.  Book  Co. 

Stories  of  the  King 

Amer.  Book’Co. 

Blaisdell  & Ball 

Heroic  Deeds  of  American 

Sailors 

Little 

Brown 

In  the  Days  of  Giants 

(Riverside  Literature  ser.) 

Houghton 

Burt  & Cable 

Eugene  Field  Book  (School 

Reading) 

Scribner 

Carpenter 

Around  the  World  With 

Children 

Amer.  Book  Co. 

Geographical  Reader  of 

North  America 

Amer.  Book  Co. 

Chamberlain 

How  We  Are  Fed 

Macmillan 

Daulton 

Wings  and  Stings 

Rand 

Dickens 

Christmas  Carol 

Rand 

Eggleston 

First  Book  in  American 

History 

Amer.  Book  Co. 

George,  ed. 

Hiawatha  Reader 

Lakeside  Book  Co. 

Hawthorne 

Tanglewood  Tales  (River- 

side  Literature  series) 

Houghton 

Horton 

The  Frozen  North 

Heath 

Jacobs,  ed. 

Aesop’s  Fables 

Macmillan 

Kipling 

Just  So  Stories 

Doubleday 

Lansing 

Life  in  the  Greenwood 

Ginn 

Luther 

Trading  and  Exploring 

Amer.  Book  Co. 

Mace 

Lincoln,  the  Man  of  the 

People 

Rand 

Washington,  a Virginia 

Cavalier 

Rand 

Matthews 

The  Seven  Champions  of 

Christendom 

Ginn 

Miller 

First  Book  of  Birds  (School 

ed.) 

Houghton 

Morley 

Little  Wanderers 

Ginn 

Oswell,  ed. 

Old  Time  Tales 

Macmillan 

Otis 

Toby  Tyler 

Harper 

Ouida 

The  Dog  of  Flanders 

Lippincott 

Pumphrey 

Pilgrim  Stories 

Rand 

Saunders 

Beautiful  Joe 

Barnes 

Scudder,  ed. 

Book  of  Legends  (Riverside 

Literature  series) 

Houghton 

Seawell 

Black  Beauty 

Crowell 

6 


Seton 

Krag  and  Johnny  Bear 

(School  readings) 

Scribner 

Sherman 

Little  Folk’s  Lyrics  (School 

ed.) 

Houghton 

Stowe 

Uncle  Tom’s  Cabin 

Grosset 

Warren 

Robin  Hood  and  His  Merry 

Men 

Rand 

Weed 

Story  of  Insect  Life.  First 

series 

Ginn 

Wiggin 

Birds’  Christmas  Carol 

Houghton 

Woods 

Child’s  Day 

Houghton 

Wyss 

Swiss  Family  Robinson 

Grosset 

Grade  6 

It  is  in  the  fifth  and  sixth  grades  that  there  is  more  time  for  read- 
ing than  there  is  later,  and  more  taste  for  it  than  in  the  earlier  grades ; 
therefore  it  is  in  these  grades  that  the  most  and  best  work  can  be 
done  in  creating  a love  for  good  books. 


Allen 

South  America 

Ginn 

Alshouse 

Heroes  of  the  Nations 

Macmillan 

Bowman 

South  America 

Rand 

Bradish 

Old  Norse  Stories 

Amer.  Book  Co. 

Bullen 

Cruise  of  the  Cachelot 

Grosset 

Burroughs 

Bird  Stories  (School  ed.) 

Houghton 

Squirrels  and  Other  Fur 

Bearers  (School  ed.) 

Houghton 

Burt,  ed. 

Poems  Every  Child  Should 

Know 

Grosset 

Burt  & Chapin, 

eds. 

Kipling  Stories 

Doubleday 

Carpenter 

Africa 

Amer.  Book  Co. 

Europe 

Amer.  Book  Co. 

How  the  World  Is  Clothed 

Amer.  Book  Co. 

How  the  World  Is  Fed 

Amer.  Book  Co. 

Church 

The  Iliad  for  Boys  and  Girls  Macmillan 

The  Odyssey  for  Boys  and 

Girls 

Macmillan 

Crommelin 

Famous  Legends  Adapted 

to  Children 

Century 

Dickson 

Pioneers  and  Patriots  in 

Early  American  History 

Macmillan 

7 


Hathaway 

Napoleon,  the  Little  Corsi- 

can 

Rand 

Hughes 

Tom  Brown’s  School  Days 

Harper 

Jewett 

Good  Health 

Ginn 

Kupfer 

Stories  of  Long  Ago 

Heath 

Long 

Ways  of  Wood  Folk 

Ginn 

Marden 

Stories  From  Life 

Amer.  Book  Co. 

Martineau 

The  Peasant  and  the  Prince 

Ginn 

Ouida 

The  Numberg  Stove 

Lippincott 

Page 

Santa  Claus’  Partner 

Scribner 

Piercy 

Great  Inventions  and  Dis- 

coveries 

Merrill 

Price 

Wandering  Heroes 

Silver 

Pyle 

Some  Merry  Adventures  of 

Robin  Hood  (School  ed.) 

Scribner 

Riley 

Child  Rhymes 

Grosset 

Stevenson 

A Child’s  Garden  of  Verses 

(New  ed.) 

Scribner 

Tappan 

Stories  From  the  Odyssey 

Houghton 

Underwood 

Heroes  of  Conquest  and 

Empire 

Macmillan 

Whitcomb 

Heroes  of  History 

Merrill 

Wiggin 

Polly  Oliver’s  Problem 

(Riverside  Literature 

series) 

Houghton 

Grade  7 

Alcott 

Little  Women 

Little 

Altsheler 

The  Riflemen  of  the  Ohio 

Appleton 

The  Shadow  of  the  North 

Appleton 

Arnold 

Stories  of  Ancient  Peoples 

Amer.  Book  Co. 

Austin 

Betty  Alden 

Houghton 

Barbour 

The  Crimson  Sweater 

Century 

Bemis  & others 

The  Patriotic  Reader 

Houghton 

Bishop 

Panama  Past  and  Present 

Century 

Brewer 

Rural  Hygiene 

Lippincott 

Bruce 

Daniel  Boone  and  the  Wil- 

derness Road 

Macmillan 

Bryant 

I Am  an  American 

Houghton 

Churchill 

The  Crossing 

Grosset 

Clemens 

Adventures  of  Tom  Sawyer 

Harper 

8 


Conn 

Bacteria,  Yeasts  and  Molds 

in  the  Home 

Ginn 

Cooper 

The  Spy  (Riverside  ed.) 

Houghton 

Eggleston 

The  Hoosier  Schoolmaster 

Grosset 

Franklin 

Autobiography.  Ed.  by 

Aiton 

Rand 

Goldsmith 

The  Deserted  Village 

Ginn 

Gordy 

American  Leaders  and 

Heroes 

Scribner 

Goss 

Life  of  Grant  for  Boys  and 

Girls 

Crowell 

Grey 

The  Young  Pitcher 

Harper 

Griswold 

Deering  of  Deal 

Macmillan 

Gulick 

Emergencies 

Ginn 

Hagedom 

You  Are  the  Hope  of  the 

World 

Macmillan 

Henty 

Under  Drake’s  Flag 

Scribner 

Irving 

Rip  Van  Winkle  (Laurel 

series) 

Crowell 

Kipling 

Captains  Courageous 

Century 

Lansing 

Barbarian  and  Noble 

Ginn 

Page,  Esquire  and  Knight 

Ginn 

Malory 

King  Arthur  and  the 
Knights  of  the  Round 

Table 

Macmillan 

Mason 

Tom  Strong,  Washington’s 

Scout 

Grosset 

Mathewson 

Pitching  in  a Pinch 

Grosset 

Parkman 

Heroes  of  Today 

Century 

Proctor 

The  Giant  Sun  and  His 

Family 

Silver 

Redway 

All  Around  Asia 

Scribner 

Reid 

Afloat  in  the  Forest 

Dutton 

Scott 

The  Talisman 

Ginn 

Starr 

Strange  Peoples 

Heath 

Stevenson 

A Soldier  of  Virginia 

Houghton 

Sutcliffe 

Robert  Fulton 

Macmillan 

Tappan 

Old  World  Hero  Stories 
When  Knights  Were  Bold 

Houghton 

Houghton 

Tomlinson 

The  Fort  in  the  Forest 

Grosset 

Tooker 

John  Paul  Jones 

Macmillan 

True 

Morgan’s  Men 

Little 

9 


Wade 

Pilgrims  of  Today 

Little 

Webster 

Daddy-Long-Legs 

Century 

Wiggin 

Mother  Cary’s  Chickens 

Grosset 

Williams 

Some  Successful  Americans 
Stories  from  Early  New 

Ginn 

York  History 

Scribner 

Grade  8 

History  and  biography  which  were  made  prominent  in  the  pre- 
ceding grade  are  continued  in  this,  but  general  literature  is  also  given 

considerable  attention. 

Altsheler 

The  Herald  of  the  West 

Appleton 

Ashmun 

Isabel  Carleton’s  Year 

Macmillan 

Bolton 

Girls  Who  Became  Famous 

Crowell 

Burgess 

Boy  Scouts  of  Woodcraft 

Camp 

Penn 

Burnett 

The  Secret  Garden 

Stokes 

Chambers 

Cardigan 

Harper 

Churchill 

The  Crisis 

Grosset 

Conn 

Story  of  Germ  Life 

Appleton 

Cooper 

The  Last  of  the  Mohicans 

Heath 

Deming  & Bemis 

Stories  of  Patriotism 

Houghton 

Earle 

Home  Life  in  Colonial  Days 

Grosset 

Eliot 

Erckman  & Chat- 

Silas  Mamer 

Ginn 

rain 

The  Conscript 

Grosset 

Frederic 

In  the  Valley 

Scribner 

Griffis 

The  Story  of  New  Nether- 

land 

Houghton 

Guerber 

Legends  of  the  Middle  Ages 

Amer.  Book  Co. 

Hale 

A Man  Without  a Country 

Little 

Hagedom 

Boy’s  Life  of  Theodore 

Roosevelt 

Harper 

Hall 

Boys  of  Scrooby 

Houghton 

Halsey 

The  Old  New  York  Frontier 

Scribner 

Holland 

Historic  Inventions 

Jacobs 

Irving 

Legend  of  Sleepy  Hollow 

(Laurel  series) 

Crowell 

Tales  from  the  Alhambra 

Ginn 

Kingsley 

Westward  Ho! 

Macmillan 

Longfellow 

Evangeline 

Merrill 

10 


Lorimer 

Letters  of  a Self-made  Mer- 

chant  to  His  Son 

Grosset 

Lowell 

Vision  of  Sir  Launfal 

Houghton 

Macaulay 

Lays  of  Ancient  Rome 

Merrill 

Marden 

The  Exceptional  Employee 

Crowell 

Maynard 

Elliott  Gray,  Jr 

Grosset 

Mitchell 

Hugh  Wynne 

Century 

The  Youth  of  Washington 

Century 

Mulock 

John  Halifax,  Gentleman 

Crowell 

Nicolay 

Boy’s  Life  of  Abraham 

Lincoln 

Century 

Parkman 

Heroines  of  Service 

Century 

— 

Rivals  for  America  (Has- 

brouck  ed.) 

Little 

Poe 

The  Gold  Bug  (Gildmaster 

ed.) 

Rand 

Proctor 

Stories  of  Starland 

Silver 

Reynolds 

How  Man  Conquered 

Nature 

Macmillan 

Scott 

Ivanhoe 

Merrill 

Sharp 

The  Ways  of  the  Woods 

Houghton 

Tappan 

American  Hero  Stories 

(School  ed.) 

Houghton 

In  the  Days  of  William  the 

Conqueror 

Lathrop 

Van  Dyke 

The  Mansion 

Harper 

Wade 

The  Wonder  Workers 

Little 

Whittier 

Snow  Bound 

Houghton 

Wiggin  & Smith 

Golden  Numbers 

Grosset 

Williams 

How  It  Is  Made 

Nelson 

Wister 

The  Virginian 

Macmillan 

